HELP European Project

This project was part of the Lifelong Learning Programme. VAC contributed on the Financial Literacy side of the Peer Mentoring project.

VAC has expertise in both Peer Mentoring and Financial Literacy and therefore shares its learning and best practice with all the partners in this project. The project has now ended. More information is available on the EU partners website, www.peer-mentoring.eu.

LATEST: Our partner EU delegates and VAC staff and Peer Mentors at County Laois, Ireland Meeting in May 2014. More photos in the Photo Album below.

HELP Project (How to Educate Learners through Peer-mentoring)

VAC has been working with five partners on a European project on Peer Mentoring:

Some learners who attended our Better Governance Training Programme and completed the Introduction to Teaching & Learning Course were given opportunities to co-train on Financial Management courses delivered at VAC. Some learners were given the opportunity to attend the Introduction to Coaching & Mentoring Course including Peer Mentoring course at VAC.

There are now mentors mentoring trustee learners on governance and financial literacy. The Trustees Peer Mentors on the Better Governance course are now mentoring their peers who attended the course on financial management.

Peer Mentoring Workshops

As part of this project, VAC developed workshops for the partners to familiarise them in how Peer Mentoring was working locally with our adult learners. VAC also developed materials and a teaching programme on Financial Management which the partners can then use for their teachers/trainers who are currently working with adult learners who are socially excluded, migrants and refugees.